First the "Floating Spoon", Now Here's a Entire Cutlery Set! NASA's Curiosity Images Reveal More Strange Shaped Rocks on the Red Planet

9/06/2015

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The strange images sent back from NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover
often comprise bizarre rock formation. Just this week, one group said they have
seen a ‘floating spoon’ on Mars in an image taken by Curiosity’s Mastcam on sol
1089 of the mission, which was quite clear. Now, a new extensive version of the
image discloses more 'spoons' and even something similar to a chopstick. The extensive
version of the image, generated by NASA, was first shared by Emily Lakdawalla of
the The Planetary Society, who clarified the occurrence was a result of the
weather conditions on the red planet. She, in a tweet, said that the relative absence
of gravity helped to shape this kind of rocks, and but the amount of time (some
millions of years) and extreme dryness (like, extremely extreme) is also important.'
She also projected the spoon was nearly 10cm long. The ‘spoon’ was revealed by members of the
UnmannedSpaceflight.com forum and researchers have already terminated it as a typical
case of pareidolia.

The 'spoon' and other strange objects found on Mars, actually
offers an insight to the oddly calm Martian environment, which can create faint
geological structures. With its top-heavy, skinny structure, it’s hard to
imagine something alike existing on Earth. This is because, on Earth, if the
circumstances are accurate, rocks are crudely shaped by wind erosion. But it is
different on Mars, where the atmosphere is quite thin and gravity is weak,
these landscapes can be even more delicate making tiny projections, such as
this ‘spoon’. And while conspiracy theorists will continue to be shocked by the
bizarre structures on the red planet, NASA says they may not be so rare after
all.

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